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| no partners | | I've been exploring the ruins around the Cave Creek area recently and noticed on Google Earth this really unusual round wall on top of a cliff east of the Sears Kay ruin. I THINK this is considered part of Kentuck Mountain.
I'm a bit reluctant to put up the route to obscure ruins like this, but this one not only had no shards it seems to have no place to dig at all.
I parked at an iffy spot –the locked, iron-gated entrance to "East Racken Sack Road", right off Seven Springs Road. The walk down the road is nice, through that deep, tree-shaded valley, and I headed up the hill at about 33°53'52.08"N 111°48'25.09"W. (My attempt a week before to head up at a point north of that failed completely –too many cliffs were in the way near the top. I gave up my attempt the week before THAT because it was too rough to take my little sports car down to that gate.) I can’t find any other reasonable way to get there.
About halfway up I suddenly began to notice shards. Looking around I noticed what I assume is a large terrace, though I could find no sign of buildings. I’ve attached pix and comments on the rest of the trip up.
If you make the treck, when you reach the beginning of the "cliff", head off just to its left side. There's a very nice deer trail from there right up to the area below the ruin.
The ruin itself is a complete mystery to me. Why build a huge, circular, rubble-filled wall almost two meters thick with no indication of any other walls? If it was roofed, how would a roof have been supported, since there’s no indication of any building at all beside those walls? If it wasn’t roofed, why were the walls so thick? And why is there a “loophole” opening on the west side, at which point alone the wall narrows to only it’s outside layer? If anyone wants to suggest some answers to these mysteries, please comment!
Maybe it’s some kind of celestial observatory instead of a fort, and the little round house below it is the ticket office –“Bring the whole family to see the Amazing Circular Observatory!” –and the “loophole” is the ticket window. I even noticed what looked like stairs on the way up.
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